National Dog Appreciation Month Podcast
I love being a guest on podcasts and last week I was on a great one. Stefan is from Germany and now lives with his family in South Carolina. April is National Dog Appreciation Month and so I love that today is the kick off for this podcast. It's also the kick off for my birthday fundraiser to help rescue 70 dogs. I hope you'll join Stefan and me to learn more about my journey to being a dog mom and how despite not being a dog person I'm still doing small things to help rescue dogs. Thank you to Stefan Dubiel who is such a warm and kind and fun host. https://www.thoughtvolutionpodcast.com/copy-of-podcasts-
When Bad Things Happen
Why do bad things happen to good people? There have been sermons preached and books written and long discussions about this question. Instead of trying to answer it, I’m going to tell you a story. I think I’m a good person. Not a perfect person, and maybe not even a person some people like to be around. I hope that when I’m no longer taking up space on this earth that when people talk about me, they will say that she was a good person. Many not-so-great things have happened to me in my life. Some happened because I made wrong choices. But most of the really bad things that happened had nothing to do with the choices I made. In 2015 I had a really bad thing happen. Gary and I were on our way home from a lovely day at the beach. We were stopped at a red [...]
What Color is God’s Love?
What Color is God's Love? by Xochitl Dixon is such a beautiful book. This is a book that radiates joy from the cover to the illustrations to each perfectly chosen word. We can't force people to care about the earth, the plants, the water, the birds, or the animals. But this book can make us want to love our earth. We can't legislate kindness. But we can weave it into our stories and the books we read for our kids and grand kids and students so that they understand that every skin tone in our world is beautiful and special. All around us we hear people talking about diversity and inclusion and when I read this amazingly special book it hit me like never before. God is and always has been and always will be our world's chief diversity officer. In these few short pages, with the most glorious illustrations [...]
He Gets Me
I had a tough week last week. I won't bore you with the details. Let's just say I felt like my nine-year-old self the summer when all the mommies pulled their kids out of the [...]
Arthur the King
I write books about rescue dogs and so I get a lot of dog stuff in my Facebook feed. I also post dog memes and photos of rescue dogs and so it’s not surprising that [...]
Never Somehow Becoming Forever.
We saw the house in September of 2016. It was a horrible house buying experience including identity theft, having to go through two different lenders but it was so complicated it's too exhausting to share [...]